BRMi Consulting is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Software Analytics SME to support a Federal agency’s Chief Information Office. The selected candidate will have strong organizational, interpersonal, communication, writing and analytical skills, effectively interact with program and contracting officials, and lead a small acquisition team in planning for and completing contract tasks and deliverables.

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• Conduct focused analysis comparing software deployments to licenses and maintenance owned to eliminate unnecessary spend, identify opportunities to improve license efficiency and drive the uninstallation of unused/under-utilized software.
• Optimizing hardware and software procurements based on actual usage or approved use cases, feature requirements, environment, and licensing rules to reduce total ownership costs.
• Provide assistance with software compliance audits and audit-proofing.
• Identify and drive the removal of legacy infrastructure and redundant technologies to reduce support and other costs.
• Supporting the execution of recommended to execution of recommended rationalization strategies including negotiation support and pricing analysis.
• Developing detailed spending profiles for IT cost categories and sub-categories with specific cost drivers identified across applications, infrastructure, telecommunications and services category portfolios.
• Prioritizing rationalization opportunities that highlight specific cost drivers and provide specific courses of engagement in order to apply leverage to for reduced spending.
• Providing software discovery guidance and ServiceNow SAM recommendations for non-discoverable and nonstandard software metrics.
• Other duties as assigned

• U.S. Citizenship
• 6 to 9 years related industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related
• A minimum of three years demonstrated experience in hands-on Software Analytics. Experience shall demonstrate hands-on strategic sourcing resulting in significant cost savings and optimization.
• Experience and familiarity with maintaining acquisition integrity, strategic sourcing (acquisition) lifecycle processes, and contract negotiation to achieve commercial best pricing and information security controls and information security controls.
• Demonstrated experience with Common Services Data Model (CSDM), applying data governance strategy and considerations to maximize reuse of common data elements and to maintain high data quality.
• Demonstrated experience as a Software Analytics SME with leading requirements gathering sessions, performing contract and pricing reviews, familiarity with industry license frameworks, software compliance audits and audit-proofing and comprehensive data analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with CSDM, applying data governance strategy and considerations to maximize reuse of common data elements and to maintain high data quality.
• Experience conducting focused analysis comparing software deployments to licenses and maintenance owned to eliminate unnecessary spend, identify opportunities to improve license efficiency and drive the uninstallation of unused/under-utilized software.
• Experience optimizing software procurements based on actual usage or approved use cases, feature requirements, environment, and licensing rules to reduce total ownership costs; experience identifying and driving the removal of legacy software and redundant technologies to reduce support and other costs.
• Ability to execute recommended rationalization strategies including negotiation support and pricing analysis.
• Experience developing detailed spending profiles for IT cost categories and sub-categories and identify with specific cost drivers across software, applications and software professional services category portfolios.
• Experience prioritizing rationalization opportunities that highlight cost drivers and provide specific courses of engagement to reduce spending.
• Experience providing software discovery guidance and ServiceNow SAM recommendations for non-discoverable and nonstandard software metrics.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.

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